Re: substitutions: "Here's That Rainy Day"
reed ( (no email) )
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:33:59 +0000
At 04:28 PM 2/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Reed and Lawson,
>Here are some changes to this tune for the opening few measures which I use
>as a solo guitar arrangement, I decided to take the decending chromatic bass
>line from G to G, I jump up an octave after the E9#11 which I use an open low
>E for (I would love to try this on a Seven string to increase the descending
>range of the bass notes):
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>G6/9 F#7#5 | F13 E9#11 | Ebmaj7(6/9) Dm7 | C#maj7(6/9) Cm7 | Bm9 Bb9 |
>A11 Ab7b9 |Gmaj7 (after that I stop the chromaticism in the bassline).
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>The maj7(6/9) chords are 6/9 chords with the maj7ths as their highest notes.
>For the passage with D in the melody over the Bm9, Bb9, and A11 chords the
>voicings are (from thick to thin strings): Root, b7, 9, and the D on top of
>each.
>
Brian,
The Dm7 in bar 3 made me think of something else.
Starting with bar 3:
Eb Dm7 | Cm7 Cm7/Bb | Am7 | D7 | .....
Or if you are willing to add an Eb melody approach note going into
the D at the beginning of bar 5 you can have:
Eb Dm7 | Cm7 Bbm7 | Am7 | D7 | ....
reed
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Reed Kotler
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